All right boys and girls. Now we go to when humans have a place. This story takes place during the Skillian blitz.
"You stay out of council space for a century, and you miss one bad ass war" Thrax thought.
Apparently there was this new species called humans and they got into it with the turians. But the part that Thrax liked the most was that the humans actually managed to kick their scaly asses. Humans even managed to get an embassy where as it took the volus a century. To Thrax these humans weren't impressive. They were small, weak, and unarmoured.
Thrax was walking towards a club called Purgatory. He was contacted by some turian and was asked to meet him there. Apparently this turian didn't like humans, and was looking for mercenaries to raid some of their colonies. Thrax didn't care for the reasons, he just wanted to get paid.
Thrax was waved over by a turian and two batarians. "Are you the ones who contacted me?" Thrax grunted.
"Depends. Who's asking?"
"The one who's going to rip off your mandible if you keep wasting my time" Thrax said in his monotone voice.
The turian flinched visibly. That threat never failed to shake a turian.
"My name is Elanos Haliat-"
"I know who you are. Your the closest thing the terminus system has to a leader. Run a powerful pirate gang. What's the job?"
"We are going to attack the human colony Elysium in the Verge."
"Than means going close to several batarian worlds. You bring any kind of fleet anywhere close to them and they will attack."
"Who do you thinks funding this little operation?"
So the batarians want the humans out of the Skillian Verge eh? Best way to do that without going to war is to use a proxy army. Who knew that the batarians were smart?
"I'm taking an army of mercenaries and a fleet of assorted ships. We are going to one of the human colonies. We are going to enslave, pillage, and then destroy the entire colony."
"Payment?"
"You will be payed after this raid is complete. Along with anything you can plunder or salvage before we destroy the colony, agreed?
Thrax nodded and said "Alright I'm in, but I'm taking my ship there."
"Fine just meet up with the fleet. We attack in three days. Your leading one of four squads that are being sent to disable the anti ship batteries."
"Who am I taking with me?"
"Three batarian slavers, and a turian sentinel."
"Fine send them to my ship and we'll have the anti ship batteries down before you arrive. But now we talk payment."
"You will be payed one hundred thousand credits after the job is done along with anything you can pillage."
"Thrax nodded and said "send the squad to my ship and wait a system over from Elysium."
"Very well send a signal on this frequency when you've disabled the guns."
ELYSIUM
Thrax landed far away from the actual colony. A krogan, a turian, and three batarians, tend to draw a lot of attention. The four disembarked and started making their way, in silence, toward their assigned gun and sent the signal, and waited for the go ahead.
After ten minutes of waiting, and resisting the urge to kill the batarians, he finally got the green light. Thrax and the three others charged toward the gun. Taking the solders by surprise the squad cut down what few guards were there.
"Hey turian get to work" Thrax said nodding his head towards the console.
While the turian worked on disabling the anti-space craft gun, Thrax and the three batarians took up place around the gun. After a few minutes the turian gave a shout indicating he was done. Thrax sent the signal to show his team was done their goal.
Thrax was told to make his way towards the capital city and leave the others to guard the gun. Running in the direction of the city Thrax could already see the mercenary fleet.
Thrax saw a small squad of humans just a head of him and charged right towards them. Reaching them he grabbed the arm of one and he, to his surprise, ripped his arm right off his body. Getting over his shock quite quickly Thrax turned and punched another human in the face before he turned and grabbed the last living human and twisted her head all the way around.
"I knew these humans were soft but damn!"
"Thrax there's a group of humans hold up in a building we could use some krogan support" Thrax heard from the comm channel.
"On my way! Send the nav-point."
Thrax looked at his omni-tool and saw that the nav-point was only two minuets from where he was.
Thrax arrived and saw the building that the humans were held up. It was a very smart tactical position. Three stories high, gave them the high ground, the bottom floor had no windows and only one entrance which was an obvious kill zone.
"Whoever thought to make a stand here was smart." Thrax thought to himself.
Seeing no way to attack from the bottom to the top, Thrax decided to attack from the top. Locking on one of the humans on the third floor Thrax charged.
Blasting the human back into the wall Thrax quickly turned and grabbed the human who was beside him by the face and squeezed but instead of just throwing the body aside Thrax threw the body at two other solders before he launched a shockwave at a group that was coming up the stairs. Thrax heard one human shout "get to the bottom and keep the pirates out. I'll handle the krogan!"
"Oh you'll handle me eh? Tell me how do you plan to do that?"
Thrax was surprised when he was hit by a warp. So these soft things have biotics. Thrax threw his own warp at the table the human was behind. Blowing it apart. But to Thrax's surprise the human managed to dive away before the desk exploded.
Thrax could finally get a look at him. His "hair", a word Thrax heard from one of mercenary, was cut close to his head. He had a sum what impressive scar that ran from the top of his face, over the right eye and stopped at his chin.
The most striking thing about him was the eyes. One was a deep molten red, but the other was a soothing light blue.
Thrax launched a ball of biotic energy that sped off and hit the human right in the chest throwing him into the wall behind him.
Walking calmly over Thrax grabbed the human by the neck and slammed him against the wall. "Well you put up a better fight than the rest of these fuckers. Now before you die I need a name."
The answer Thrax got was a sharp pain in his stomach. Dropping the human Thrax stumbled backwards before he felt another pain. Looking down he saw two wounds leaking orange blood. Looking back at the human he saw a small gun in his hand. The human pulled the trigger four more times before Thrax heard the beeping on the gun, indicating that the heat cartage had overheated. Not wanting to wait for another six shots to the gut, Thrax turned and leaped out of the window.
Falling on the ground on his side. He started to crawl away. He felt one maybe two of his lungs had been punctured, and the one of his remaining two had collapsed. He could already feel his regeneration kicking in but with three lungs out-of-order it was going to take a while.
"Heh breathing going to be fun." Thrax chuckled at that before wincing.
"A sneak attack. Cowardly but unexpected. Maybe these humans have what it takes to make it in the galaxy."
Looking up Thrax saw multiple ships. The problem was most of them were bearing the Alliance logo. They were destroying the mercenary ships left and right.
"Haliat goanna pay for this." Thrax said angrily.
When it came to battles Thrax wasn't ruled by the krogan mindset of fight to the end. During the rebellion Thrax had called for a retreat more than once which had helped him conquer other planets because he hadn't sacrificed his forces.
"There are times to fight, and times to run. This is the time to run."
Getting up, and ignoring the stabbing pain from his chest, Thrax made his way away towards where he'd left ship. He'd stumbled past several terrified looking humans. On his way out of the city he was spotted by two humans in with pistols they spotted him, but not willing or wanting to get shot in the torso again, Thrax tried to launch a singularity but after all the fighting and getting shot he just didn't have the energy. Grabbing the pistol he always kept but rarely used, and he fired twice and hit them both in the head.
"I need a place to hold up. Until I have at least two working lungs." Thrax thought as he looked around.
Stumbling towards a large building Thrax overloaded the door's lock and went in. "Huerta apartment? What the hell is a Huerta?" Thrax thought not giving it much thought going to the elevator he hit a random level.
"How do other species survive with anything less than four lungs?" Thrax thought to himself as his breaths came out as rasps.
Exiting the elevator Thrax made his way down the hall and picked a random door before he overloaded the lock and stumbled in.
Inside was a home the size of the one he had on Omega with Cary. He grabbed his pistol and made his way through the rooms. When he found nothing he fell back against a wall and slid down.
"Babe?" A soft sweet voice said.
"Cary?" Thrax choked out.
Turning his head Thrax saw Cary, she was wearing a white nightgown, the same one she wore the last time Thrax saw her, and was kneeling right beside him.
"I must have lost more blood than I thought if I'm hallucination."
"Just because I'm a hallucination doesn't mean I'm not here" Cary said with a huff.
"By definition, yes that's exactly what it means."
Cary pouted and said "you and your smartness although given your current situation I suppose krogan get less intelligent as they age."
Thrax managed to choke out "I guess your disappointed in the choices I've made huh?"
"I'll admit you've done some questionable things since I've been gone. But I'm not angry, I could never be angry at my snugly krogan" she said playfully.
Thrax started to laugh before wincing in pain. "I miss you blue, I miss you so much and I'm so sorry."
"Gratlok Talz! Don't you dare blame yourself for what happened!" Cary shouted.
In the two years he was with her the only time shed ever used his real name was when she needed to make a big point. But this time Thrax wasn't backing down "if I don't who will. It was my responsibility to look after you and I failed."
"You can't go around for the next thousand years blaming yourself for something you had no control over. It'll drive you insane."
What she did next truly surprised Thrax. She brushed her hand against the skin right under his plate. The only part of his face that wasn't scarred. "I don't blame you Thrax, I never have and I never will."
Thrax could see darkness start to surround his vision. He knew he was starting to black out but before he did he said "I love you blue."
Then he saw nothing.